De-Facto Science Policy in the Making: How Scientists Shape Science Policy and Why it Matters (or, Why STS and STP Scholars Should Socialize)

Miller, Thaddeus R.; Neff, Mark W.

doi:10.1007/s11024-013-9234-x

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“…Extending models of anticipatory governance (Guston 2014), frameworks of responsible innovation attempt to build capacity for anticipation, inclusion, reflexivity and responsiveness in sociotechnical systems (Stilgoe et al 2013). Responsiveness is seen as particularly important and commonly neglected in public deliberations, which often run up against de facto governance, the dynamics that shape science and innovation in particular ways and constrain attempts to alter course towards greater public value (Rip 2006;Miller and Neff 2013).…”

Section: Responsible Governance and Emerging Sociotechnical Systemsmentioning

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Reframing the governance of automotive automation: insights from UK stakeholder workshops

Cohen

Stilgoe

Cavoli

2018

Journal of Responsible Innovation

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How should policymakers engage with the possibilities of self-driving cars? There has been prominent discussion of proposed benefits and safety concerns. However, considering the scale of investment and speed of development, the social complexity of systems involving self-driving cars has received inadequate attention. Self-driving cars are currently being tested on open roads. The anticipation necessary for good governance can be informed only in part by such experiments. There is a need to broaden the set of issues that are considered relevant. In this paper, we report on the first systematic process of engagement with stakeholders in the UK. We organise the findings of these workshops in terms of questions that might inform the ongoing debate about the governance of self-driving cars. These questions are grouped under four headings: technological and market developments, use of and reaction to technology, wider impacts and the role of the public sector. Our conclusion is that this debate urgently needs to be broadened in order to build trustworthiness and maximise the public value of this emerging technology. The possibilities of self-driving cars suggest the need for a more active form of governance for responsible innovation.

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Section: Responsible Governance and Emerging Sociotechnical Systemsmentioning

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Reframing the governance of automotive automation: insights from UK stakeholder workshops

Cohen

Stilgoe

Cavoli

2018

Journal of Responsible Innovation

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“…In such cases, additional scientific knowledge about underlying problem dynamics is rarely a factor in limiting the development of more sustainable outcomes (Sarewitz 2004). Yet, much of the research in sustainability science, and the use-inspired socio-environmental sciences more broadly, is based on the assumption that more knowledge about system dynamics is necessary for improved decision-making and action related to sustainability (Miller 2013;Miller and Neff 2013;Palmer 2012;Wiek et al 2012). This stems, in part, from an Enlightenment belief in rationality and progress that is embedded in our knowledge-generating institutions and in democratic liberalism more broadly (Ezrahi 1990).…”

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The future of sustainability science: a solutions-oriented research agenda

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“…The widely held assumption that more objective knowledge is the key to bolstering action towards sustainability runs contrary to the findings of sustainability science. Sustainability outcomes are actually more closely tied deliberative knowledge processes: building greater awareness of the ways in which experts and practitioners frame sustainability issues; the values that are included as well as excluded; as well as effective ways of facilitating communication of diverse knowledge and dealing with conflict if and when it arises (Smith and Stirling 2007;Healey 2006;Miller and Neff 2013;Wiek et al 2012). As Miller et al (2014) point out, the continuing dependence upon objective knowledge to adjudicate sustainability issues represents the persistence of the modernist belief in rationality and progress that underwrites almost all knowledge-generating institutions (Horkheimer and Adorno 2002;Marcuse 2013).…”

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Aquaponics for the Anthropocene: Towards a ‘Sustainability First’ Agenda

Gott

Morgenstern

Turnšek

2019

Aquaponics Food Production Systems

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The Anthropocene' has emerged as a unique moment in earth history where humanity recognises its devastating capacity to destabilise the planetary processes upon which it depends. Modern agriculture plays a central role in this problematic. Food production innovations are needed that exceed traditional paradigms of the Green Revolution whilst at the same time are able to acknowledge the complexity arising from the sustainability and food security issues that mark our times. Aquaponics is one technological innovation that promises to contribute much towards these imperatives. But this emergent field is in an early stage that is characterised by limited resources, market uncertainty, institutional resistance and high risks of failure-a developmental environment where hype prevails over demonstrated outcomes. Given this situation, the aquaponics research community potentially holds an important place in the development path of this technology. But the field needs to craft a coherent and viable vision for this technology that can move beyond misplaced techno-optimist accounts. Turning to sustainability science and STS research, we discuss the urgent need to develop what we call a 'critical sustainability knowledge' for aquaponics, giving pointers for possible ways forward, which include (1) expanding aquaponic research into an interdisciplinary research domain, (2) opening research up to participatory approaches in real-world contexts and (3) pursuing a solution-oriented approach for sustainability and food security outcomes.

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De-Facto Science Policy in the Making: How Scientists Shape Science Policy and Why it Matters (or, Why STS and STP Scholars Should Socialize)

Cited by 26 publications

References 101 publications

Reframing the governance of automotive automation: insights from UK stakeholder workshops

Reframing the governance of automotive automation: insights from UK stakeholder workshops

The future of sustainability science: a solutions-oriented research agenda

Aquaponics for the Anthropocene: Towards a ‘Sustainability First’ Agenda

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